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(KNZA)-- Unemployment was down in area northeast Kansas counties in March.
According to a report released by the Kansas Department of Labor, Brown County was the only area county not to see a drop in its unemployment rate in March, with the county’s jobless rate holding steady at 3.6 percent.
Atchison County had the highest unemployment rate in the area at 5.9 percent, while Nemaha County had the lowest at 2.7 percent.
Elsewhere, Doniphan County’s unemployment rate in March was 3.8 percent; Jackson, 3.4 percent; Jefferson, 4.2 percent; Leavenworth, 4.5 percent; Marshall, 3 percent; and Pottawatomie, 3.2 percent.
All the figures are down from March 2015.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in March was 3.9 percent. That’s down from 4 percent in February and 4.3 percent in March 2015.
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